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Matthew's and Luke's accounts specify the "fringe" of his cloak, using a Greek word which also appears in Mark 6. [8] According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on fringes in Scripture, the Pharisees (one of the sects of Second Temple Judaism) who were the progenitors of modern Rabbinic Judaism, were in the habit of wearing extra-long fringes or tassels (Matthew 23:5), [9] a reference to ...
The narrative about Jairus' daughter is interrupted by the appearance of a woman who had a haemorrhage (Matthew: αἱμορροοῦσα haimorroousa "having had a flow of blood"; Mark/Luke: οὖσα ἐν ῥύσει αἵματος ousa en rhysei haimatos "being with a flow of blood") for 12 years. Mark and Luke inform the reader that all ...
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: The New International Version translates the passage as: Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.
Illustration by Paolo Veronese of Jesus healing the woman with a flow of blood. Jesus practiced the ministry of touch, sometimes touching the "untouchables" and letting them touch him. Among the things considered defiling (disqualifying one for the rituals of religion) was an issue of blood, especially menstruation or hemorrhage. One such woman ...
In Luke 24:10, Joanna is mentioned by name, along with Mary Magdalene and Mary of Clopas, as among the women who took spices to Jesus' tomb and found the stone rolled away and the tomb empty. The accounts in the other synoptic gospels do not mention Joanna as one of the group of women who observe Jesus' burial and testify to his Resurrection.
This agrees with verse 16 which states, that the woman "Satan had kept bound for eighteen long years." In the same manner the devil afflicted Job with various diseases (Job 2, see also Ps. 78:49 [2]). He further writes that, "the devil, therefore, made this woman crooked and bent, to compel her always to look down upon the earth." [3]
Susanna is among the women listed in Luke 8 as being one of the women who has been "cured of evil spirits and diseases" and provided for Jesus out of their resources. And Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward; and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
[citation needed] The line "If I touched the hem of His garment, His blood has made me whole" alludes to the story of the woman whose issue of blood was healed by touching Jesus' garment, in the Gospel of Luke at 8:43–48. She had been ritually unclean for so long as it persisted, according to the Book of Leviticus at 15:25–27.